رمل

Arabic

Etymology

First attested as Old South Arabian 𐩧𐩣𐩡 (rml). An extension of the root ر م م (r-m-m).

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • IPA(key): /raml/

Noun

رَمْل • (raml) m (plural رِمَال (rimāl))

  1. (uncountable) sand
  2. ellipsis of عِلْم الرَمْل (ʕilm ar-raml, geomancy).
  3. (obsolete) verbal noun of رَمَلَ (ramala) (form I)

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Hijazi Arabic: رمل (ramil)
  • Maltese: ramel, ramal, remel
  • Azerbaijani: rəml
  • Georgian: რამლი (ramli), მერამლე (meramle)
  • Malay: ramal
  • Middle Armenian: ռամ (ṙam), ըռամ (əṙam)
  • Ottoman Turkish: رمل (reml)
    • Turkish: remil, rem (dialectal)
  • Persian: رمل (raml)
  • Swahili: ramli

Noun

رَمَل • (ramal) m (plural أَرْمَال (ʔarmāl)) (obsolete)

  1. weak rain
  2. a certain mode of music
  3. verbal noun of رَمَلَ (ramala) (form I)

Declension

Adjective

رَمِل • (ramil)

  1. sandy

Declension

Verb

رَمَلَ • (ramala) I, non-past يَرْمُلُ‎ (yarmulu) (obsolete)

  1. to mix sand into
  2. to plait together, to braid, or to cover with plaited ornaments

Conjugation

Verb

رَمَلَ • (ramala) I, non-past يَرْمُلُ‎ (yarmulu) (obsolete)

  1. to go forward in a kind of trotting pace

Conjugation

Verb

رَمَّلَ • (rammala) II, non-past يُرَمِّلُ‎ (yurammilu)

  1. to pour sand into
  2. to defile, to smear, to adulterate etc.

Conjugation

References

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 559
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “رمل”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 558
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “رمل”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 195–196
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “رمل”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 928–929
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “رمل”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1159–1161
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “رمل”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 418
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “رمل”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 500

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic رَمْل (raml).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ramil/

Noun

رمل • (ramil) m (construct state رَمْل (raml), plural رِمَال (rimāl))

  1. sand

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic رَمْل (raml).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /raml/, [ˈra.m(ɪ)l]
  • (file)

Noun

رمل • (raml) m

  1. sand
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